The Edmonton Oilers need to find consistent forward lines | Oilersnation Afterdark

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1. This team is cooked.

2. I think Knobloch is in over his head and floundering. They will probably wait until our first or second round playoff exit to replace him.

3. He is coaching like a peewee coach, knowone can gain any confidence when he always has McD and Dri on the ice every second shift. It's like there is knowone else on the team .

4. This team sucks ass

5. Whole system is a mess. At this point, the change needs to come from the locker room or face a tear down

6. No f’ng shit…. Enough already. Stick with the same lines throughout an entire game for once, if you haven’t figured out combinations by now you’ve got issues. This has to be the worst line juggling the Oil have seen in decades….

7. The more I think about it, the more I’m coming to the realization that the Oilers lost their mojo when all of that line juggling was going on in Jan. Everyone was kinda like…um why?…I guess it can’t hurt…except it DID.

   Everyone came back from the break and had no clue who was playing with whom.

   Knobs needs to settle down and just accept he might fall to wild card but the team needs to just stop shuffling and just play.

8. Knob has to go, he's still shuffling as if it were pre-season! He destroyed the confidence of every single player, he lost the 'room'

9. Coach needs to start ripping into the players no more mr nice guy stop playing favourites sit players that ain’t playing call up players send some down do something

10. Knoblach's presser last night was telling: "when some of those guys play with Drai or McD, they defer and don't play like themselves". of course they don't: they're terrified to get healthy scratched!

    how are they supposed to learn how to play with the big guns unless they get to spend consistent time with the big guns? how are McD and Drai supposed to develop a report with them, develop that 'second sense' where everyone knows where they will be, lead their team?

    SCRAP THE BLENDER. if you don't trust your guys they'll never trust the system or eachother. If it's the Drai-McD show versus the world, they'll get shut down and sent packing in the first round

11. I'm glad to see this video. I've been bitching about this for sooooo long. No one knows how to play with anyone else. A 7-man Too many men on the ice? Come on now coach.

12. Skinner had 3 chances right in front of the net and bobbled the puck or missed it every time. The dude just doesn't have it.

13. Predictions for tonight: Given that we'll lose again, how badly by? 4-2 islanders

14. People need to STOP with this Jeff skinner bullshit. He was the best guy on the worst team for years. That is like being the smartest r word in the room full of capable students. Same with arvidsson, he is only here because of the Swedish connection. On any team they have been on there has always been talk about wanting more from them.

    People need to stop with these narratives. The coach isn't the issue.

    The issue was losing the players we lost. Our speed. Our grit. We went back 3 years.

    And goaltending was an issue before his tenure.

15. His knobber line juggling will get him him fired after they lose in the first round.

16. It went down hill when the stupid GM decided to let Hollaway and Mcleod go we needed the speed. Now we got 2 players on that team that are playing that Drai and McDavid thats the only 2 that show up to play. Sure hope they can turns things around fast. The coach is not a NHL coach hes more of a novice coach, he barly says anything!